The Best Classic Books to Have on Your Bookshelf

"In Cold Blood" ($10)

"In Cold Blood" is not only a literary masterpiece, it also shook up the novel format as we know it. One of the first non-fiction novels ever written, journalist and socialite Truman Capote told the true story behind a brutal four-person murder in Holcomb, Kansas, that could have easily been lost to obscurity but ultimately reverberated around the country.